Ten Natural Resource Management program students from the Northern Marianas College held an outreach for about 40 high school students on Tinian this week, according student Jolly Ann Cruz. She said the students shared the potential career and personal opportunities for students in the program.<\/p>\n
Cruz, who is also president of the college\u2019s Environmental and Natural Resource Organization, said they, along with their adviser, Dr. Alfredo Torres, shared the merits of their studies with Tinian Jr. Sr. High School on Tuesday, as well as with NMC Tinian students on Monday.<\/p>\n
Cruz, who also majors in education, compared NRM to her education studies, saying NRM is more \u201chands on.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you enjoy working out in the field then this is definitely the major you want,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Shirley Ann Taitano, another NRM student, told the students of the many scholarships or internships they could take advantage of as NRM students. She said \u201cmost but not all\u201d internships are fully paid for, with room and board.<\/p>\n
She said a CARI-PAC internship she did in the summer of 2012 taught her techniques in sustainable agriculture. This was fully paid for, she said.<\/p>\n
Cruz also took part in a mentoring and research program at the University of Hawaii last summer. She studied ocean acidification\u2019s effects on coral, she said.<\/p>\n
Cruz said NRM \u201cmixes up both\u201d terrestrial, agricultural and marine studies. It opens up more opportunities to learn, she said.<\/p>\n
She listed internships in Costa Rica, Hawaii, and the U.S. mainland as opportunities for interested NRM students.<\/p>\n
Taitano is hoping to get into a NOAA seafloor mapping program next year. She participated in a NOAA research in the Northern Islands this summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe environment\u2019s important. So we need more people to help sustain and preserve it for the next generation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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